Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Becher, Katharine Moore Campbell
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Description area
Dates of existence
1849 - 1940
History
Katharine Moore Campbell was born on December 4, 1849 to Duncan Campbell and Clara Anne Perkins Campbell of Lynnwood, Simcoe. She married Henry Becher on September 19, 1872. The couple had three children: Henry Campbell (born 1874), Alexander Lorne (1875) and Archibald Valancey (1877). Mrs. Becher was active in church organizations working on behalf of St. Paul’s Cathedral, was a honourary president of the Red Cross Society, and served for twenty-five years as president of the Protestant Orphans Home Board. Katharine Campbell Becher died at Thornwood in London, Ontario on February 2, 1940.
Places
London